Item #39224 Life Support Technics. NEW MEXICO SOLAR ENERGY ASSOCIATION, NMSEA.
Life Support Technics.
Life Support Technics.
Life Support Technics.

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Life Support Technics.

Albuquerque, NM: Biotechnic Press, 1973. First edition. Tabloid newspaper format, folded centrally, as issued. 32pp. Illustrated with photographs and diagrams.

The proceedings from NMSEA's first annual 'Life Technic' conference, a gathering held in October 1972 of groups and individuals "directly involved in grassroots efforts towards personal and community survival and improvement, towards non-exploitive techniques in agriculture, land use, habitation, life-supporting industry and energy-generation." NMSEA was founded in Ghost Ranch, New Mexico by Peter van Dresser (who first moved to a small village in New Mexico in 1949 and subsequently designed and built solar and wind-powered houses), Steve Baer (then known as one of a group of 'dirty hippies' who had dropped out of consumerist America), and Keith Haggard (NMSEA's first Executive Director).

Contents include contributions from Steve Baer, Peter van Dresser, Ralph Bell, Zane Speigel, Fred Hopman, Roger Hillyard, Bill Lumpkins, Buck Rogers, Bob Reines, and Harold Hay on topics such as land stewardship, management of water resource systems, organic farming, solar heating experiments, and wind energy, with a final section devoted to "A Pioneer Solar House in Santa Fe" by Van Dresser.

Newsprint paper tanned and age-toned; short tears to left edge of front cover and lower edge of back cover, with split along centre of fragile spine fold, o/w Very Good. A rare copy of the first publication from NMSEA, a nonprofit organisation that continues to promote renewable energy and sustainability in New Mexico.

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